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Oh Christmas tree

Featuring, amongst others, the alpaca on the top of the tree (the finger puppet came with a gift certificate after HD’s parents gifted an alpaca to a Peruvian family via Practical Action as one of our wedding presents), the Christmas kookaburra (a previous wibsite present exchange gift from Miss Lisa), a couple of decorations from birdie (where’s her blog gone?!) who sent them my first Christmas in Scotland after hearing I was going to be on my own and not actually have any presents to open on the day (long not particularly sad story!), and a little wooden snowman from Finland I bought when I went to Helsinki for a conference – I’d had great ideas about buying Christmas presents there till I saw the prices, all I managed in the end was the tiniest little tree decoration and a shot glass for HD which cost a flippin’ fortune! And the tree – we bought it just before we got married, our first Christmas tree. It’s only tiny, but is so full of memories!

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HA, the kookaburra! I’ve got my little Christmas star and spoon sitting right here on the bookshelf, I dug them out yesterday … unfortunately our tree is very “modairn” (that’s franglish for modern, obviously) and is basically an upside down cone, covered in gold tinsel and lights – it’s very pretty but nowhere to hang anything without risking electrocution, so i’m just putting various random decorations on shelves and door handles instead.

I LOVE the alpaca … or ‘pacaseep’ as they are known in my family courtesy of my eldest nephew, who named the alpacas up the road from mum and dad this when he was 3 – I thought it was a pretty good effort